Career

Atlas started wrestling in 1975 for the National Wrestling Alliance
World Wide/Mid Atlantic area. His debut, on July 10, was a tag team
match with Bob Bruggers against Art Neilson and The Blue Scorpion. The
match finished with Atlas winning the fall for his team with a sleeper
hold on the Blue Scorpion.

During his time with the NWA, Atlas captured the NWA Georgia Tag Team Title with Tommy Rich. He later teamed with Mr. Wrestling II, Thunderbolt Patterson, Kevin Sullivan, and Rocky Johnson. In the WWF, Tony teamed with Rocky Johnson to defeat the Wild Samoans to win the WWF World tag team title, becoming the first Afro-American team to hold the belts.[2][3]
After losing the titles to Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch, Johnson soon
departed. WWF management was prepared to offer Atlas a run as the
company's Intercontinental champion, but a burgeoning drug problem led
to Atlas missing dates and becoming unreliable both inside and outside
the ring. Atlas was thus shunted to the mid card in the WWF in short
lived tag teams with Ivan Putski, Lanny Poffo and George Wells. He was
also used as a jobber to the stars, putting over newly arriving talent like King Kong Bundy and Harley Race.

In 1987, Tony left for the Texas based World Class Championship
Wrestling where he adopted the moniker of "The Black Superman". He had
almost instant success when he teamed with Skip Young to win the World Class Texas Tag Team Title. Atlas left the company in 1988.

Atlas then moved on to the Northeast independent area in late 1988.
He joined International Championship Wrestling (owned and operated by
Mario Savoldi) where he turned heel and under the management of The Duke
(not Pete Doherty) won the ICW Heavyweight title from Joe Savoldi.
Atlas lost the belt to Vic Steamboat in Middletown, NY. But after a few
months, he regained the belt from Steamboat. That match became infamous
because of the number of times it was shown on the IWCCW syndicated
show.

In late 1990 following a battle with drug addiction, a rejuvenated
Atlas returned to the WWF, reinvented as Saba Simba and was a competitor
in the 1991 Royal Rumble. On December 13, 2010, Tony appeared on Right
After Wrestling and credited the Saba Simba character with saving his
life as he was homeless and living on a park bench before getting a
phone call from Vince McMahon.[4]
He played a warrior of a Ugandan tribe, but the gimmick was unpopular
at best, and considered racist at worst. He left for WCW shortly
thereafter. In 1992, he wrestled in WCW, and in 1994 for the American Wrestling Federation (AWF). He briefly showed back up in the WWF around Wrestlemania 13 being spotted in the crowd and cheering for Rocky Mavia.

Atlas appeared on the July 8, 2008, airing of ECW where Theodore Long appointed him the special guest ring announcer for the main event featuring Tommy Dreamer with then-babyface, Colin Delaney in his corner against then-heel, Mark Henry.
Atlas attacked Delaney, which in turn distracted Dreamer, allowing
Henry to gain the victory. Atlas then announced Henry the winner of the
bout, although the official result was a double countout. This is also
the first time since his brief stint in WCW in 1992 that Atlas has
worked as a heel. Atlas also accompanied Henry to the ring at The Great American Bash. Atlas helped Mark Henry retain his title at SummerSlam, attacking Matt Hardy once a win by Hardy appeared to be imminent. Henry was also able to retain his ECW Championship on the August 19, 2008 episode of ECW due to an outside interference from Atlas. At Unforgiven,
Atlas was there to support Henry in retaining his Championship in the
ECW Championship Scramble, although Henry lost the title to Hardy after
Hardy got the last fall. On December 9 edition of ECW, Atlas wrestled in a WWE ring for the first time in 17 years (along with Mark Henry) in a tag team match, where they defeated Finlay and Hornswoggle. Tony also wrestled Evan Bourne on the June 9, 2009 episode of ECW in a losing effort. Henry was then traded to the Raw brand on June 29, resulting in Atlas no longer managing him.

On September 1, 2009, Atlas re-appeared as the announcer for "The Abraham Washington
Show" segment. He would portray Abraham's sidekick and laugh at his
jokes with a forced, uproarious laugh and would also be the butt of some
of Washington's jokes and abuse. After ECW ended, he and Washington
became free agents.

Atlas was released from his WWE contract on April 30, 2010.[5]
However, he made a brief appearance on the Old School Raw episode on
November 15, 2010. On December 12, 2011, he made a brief appearance to
co-present the Slammy Award for "Trending Superstar of the Year." On
April 10, 2012, Atlas made an appearance on WWE Smackdown: Blast from
the Past.